April 2013
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May 2012
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Week 13: Assessing GG
Recommended:
Dingwerth, Klaus, and Philipp Pattberg. “Global Governance as a Perspective on World Politics.” Global Governance 12, no. 2 (2006): 185-203.
Rosenau, James N. “Governance in the Twenty-First Century.” Global Governance 1 (1995): 13.
Stoker, G. “Governance as Theory: Five Propositions.” International Social Science Journal 50, no. 155 (1998):...
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Norms
Symposium: Interrogating the Use of Norms in International Relations
International Studies Perspectives, Volume 13, Issue 2, May 2012
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Oliver North threat-inflates for the next ‘Modern...
“I don’t want to sound like some boring old dude who doesn’t get this stuff. I like gaming. I waste too much time on it also. I enjoy action movies and FPS’s like Halo; I’ve played Modern Warfare and even Homefront. What unnerves isn’t the thrill of the violence. (That is also morally dubious, of course, but given that it underlines the viewing rush of every action movie ever made, hold that...
On Black Studies →
Please consider signing this petition criticizing CHE for publishing a racist attack on doctoral students.
“‘Every state is founded on force,’ said Trotsky at Brest-Litovsk....”
– Max Weber, “Politics as a Vocation”
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Week 12: Global Security Assemblages
Wednesday, May 2
Abrahamsen, Rita, and Michael C. Williams. 2009. “Security Beyond the State: Global Security Assemblages in International Politics.” International Political Sociology 3(1): 1-17.
Leander, Anna. 2005. “The Power to Construct International Security: On the Significance of Private Military Companies.” Millennium 33(3):803-825.
Recommended
Aradau, Claudia...
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Week 11: Global Governmentality
Wednesday, April 25
Larner, Wendy and William Walters, eds. 2004. Global Governmentality: Governing International Spaces. Routledge, pp 1-20.
Lipschutz, Ronnie. 2005. “Power, Politics and Global Civil Society.” Millennium 35(3):747-769.
Kinsella, Helen. 2005. “Securing the Civilian: Sex and Gender in the Laws of War.” In Michael Barnett and Raymond Duvall, eds. Power in Global Governance....
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Week 9: World Systems Theory
Wednesday, April 11
Giovanni Arrighi and Beverly Silver. 1999. Chaos and Governance in the World System. University of Minnesota Press.
Arrighi, Giovanni. 2005. “Global Governance and Hegemony in the Modern World System.” Ba and Hoffmann, pp 57-71.
Recommended
Sassen, Saska. 1991. The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Week 10: Critical Global Political Economy (GPE)
Wednesday, April 18 • Peterson, V. Spike. 2003. Critical Rewriting of the Global Political Economy. Routledge.
April 2012
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Petition for Religion and IR section at ISA →
Resources for Graduate Students →
New links!
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"Hillz" Clinton Was Always Cool →
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My Favorite ISA Panels
Storytelling as Political: The Ethics of Personal Narratives
Shapiro, Michael (Chair)
Wibben, Annick (Discussant)
Slack: A Troublesome Gift: Hospitality, Narration, and Scenes of Address in Contemporary Anti-Slavery Campaigns
Daigle: Writing ‘Prostitute’ Lives: Researching Dissident Sexualities in Contemporary Cuba
Doty: Writing from the Edge
Crane-Seeber: Soldiers as Patriotic...
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ISA
It turns out that I had been misinformed about the location of next year’s ISA conference; it will be in San Francisco rather than Honolulu. we will get to Hawaii, but not until 2020. See here for a full list of future dates and locations.
For those looking for the inside scoop regarding this year’s happenings, check out #ISA2012 on twitter.
March 2012
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Recommended for Unit IV: Critical, Marxian, and...
Immanuel Wallterstein, “The Inter-State Structure of the Modern World-System,” in Linklater, International Relations: Critical Concepts in Political Science, Vol. IV, pp. 1361-78.
Andre Gunder Frank, “The Development of Underdevelopment,” in Linklater, International Relations: Critical Concepts in Political Science, Vol. III, pp. 1149-59.
Fred Halliday, “A Necessary Encounter: Historical...
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Week 7: Historical Materialism
Wednesday, March 21
Paul, Darel. 2005. “The Local Politics of ‘Going Global’: Making and Unmaking Minneapolis-St Paul as a World City.” Urban Studies 42(12):2103-2122.
Sinclair, Timothy. 2005. “A Private Authority Perspective on Global Governance.”Ba and Hoffman, pp 178-189.
Paul, Darel. 2005. “World Cities as Hegemonic Projects: The Politics of Global Imagineering in Montreal.” Political...
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Week 6: International Norms and Domestic Change
Wednesday, March 14
Finnemore, Martha and Kathryn Sikkink. 1998. “International Norm Dynamics and Political Change.” International Organization 52(4):887-917.
Risse, Thomas. 1999 “International Norms and Domestic Change: Arguing and Communicative Behavior in the Human Rights Arena.” Politics & Society 27(4):529-559.
Towns, Ann E. 2010. Women and States: Norms and Hierarchies in...
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2012 ISA-NE Call for Papers Posted
The 2012 ISA-NE Call for Papers is now available. Our conference, “Global Governance and Interdisciplinarity in IR,” will be held 2-3 November 2012 at the Tremont Plaza Hotel in Baltimore, Maryland.
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Rules for Writing One's CV | Saideman's Semi-Spew →
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The Best Paragraph I Have Ever Read in a... →
A prospectus runs about 60-80 pages and, to be blunt, is extremely painful to both authors and readers. It’s painful for the authors because, after having spent most of graduate school ripping what they read to intellectual shreds, they discover that coming up with their own original arguments is actually a pretty challenging experience. It’s painful for the readers because...
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RAND, Cold Warriors and the Failure of 'Rational... →
According to Hegel, history is idea-driven. According to almost everyone else, this is foolish. What can “idea driven” even mean when measured against the passion and anguish of a place like Libya?
But Hegel had his reasons. Ideas for him are public, rather than in our heads, and serve to coordinate behavior. They are, in short, pragmatically meaningful words. To say that history is “idea...
Survey of IR Theory Literature →
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Clinton and Health Care: On Deaf Ears - Lawyers,... →
Re: the “bully pulpit”
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Week 5: World Culture
Wednesday, March 7
Meyer, John W et al. 1997. “World Society and the Nation-State” The American Journal of Sociology 103(1):144-181.
Frank, David John and John W Meyer. 2002 “The Profusion of Individual Roles and Identities in the Postwar Period” Sociological Theory 20(1):86-105.
Frank, David John and Elizabeth McEneaney 1999. “The Individualization of Society and the Liberalization of State...
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WatchWhat Have the Romans Ever Done For Us? (Monty Python’s Life of Brian)
Reg: All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us? Attendee: Brought peace? Reg: Oh, peace - shut up! Reg: There is not one of us who would not gladly suffer death to rid this...
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WatchThe Judean People’s Front (Monty Python’s Life of Brian)
REG: Listen. If you wanted to join the P.F.J., you’d have to really hate the Romans.
BRIAN: I do!
REG: Oh, yeah? How much?
BRIAN: A lot!
REG: Right. You’re in. Listen. The only people we hate more than the Romans are the f*cking Judean People’s Front.
February 2012
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Week 4: GG as Pluralism and Multilevel Governance
Wednesday, February 29
Betsill, Michele and Harriet Bulkeley. 2006. “Cities and the Multilevel Governance of Global Climate Change.” Global Governance 12: pp 151-159.
Forman, Shepard and Derk Segaar 2006. “New Coalitions for Global Governance: The Changing Dynamics of Multilateralism.” Global Governance 12, pp 205-225.
Schultz, Kenneth A. 2003. “Tying Hands and Washing Hands: the U.S. Congress...
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Dana Priest: Top Secret America →
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Week 3: Regimes, Institutions and Contractual GG
Unit II. Liberal Approaches to GG Wednesday, February 22
Keohane, Robert. 1982. “The Demand for International Regimes.” International Organization 36(2): 325-355.
Koremenos, Barbara, Charles Lipson and Duncan Snidal. 2001. “The Rational Design of International Institutions.” International Organization 55(4):761-799.
Young, Oran. 2005. “Regime Theory and the Quest for Global Governance.” In Ba...
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Week 2: State Power and GG
Wednesday, February 15 • Gilpin, Robert. 2002. Global Political Economy: Understanding the International Economic Order. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Resources:
John Mearsheimer & Conversations with History: Through a Realist Lens
Jervis, Robert. (1978). “Cooperation Under the Security Dilemma.” World Politics, 30:2, 167-214
Mearsheimer, John J. (1994). “The False...
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Week 1: Structures and Power
Unit I. Introduction and Realist Approaches to GG Wednesday, February 8 • Michael Barnett and Raymond Duvall (2005). “Power in International Politics.” International Organization, 59(1): 39-75. • Sterling-Folker, Jennifer. (2005) “Realist Global Governance” in Contending Perspectives on Global Governance, pp 17-38. Recommended:
Gilpin, Robert. (2002) “A Realist Perspective on International...
